An Analysis of the Symbolism of the Moor in Wuthering Heights英语专业毕业论文.doc

An Analysis of the Symbolism of the Moor in Wuthering HeightsAbstractThis paper intends to show the symbolism of the Moor in Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte’s unique and splendid masterpiece. Wuthering Heights is the one of the remarkable books which is not forgotten by the people. Wuthering Heights has been published in English literature were considered to be a history of “the most peculiar novel.” It is a “strange book” and “great book”. In the novel Wuthering Heights, the author Emily Bronte skillfully utilized some particular narration techniques. The moor in her writing is not just environment description but of symbolic significance. This paper consists of views on Emily Bronte’s childhood and the background of that society. It analyzes Emily Bronte’s individuality, elaborates and discusses the symbolism of the moor in Wuthering Heights from perspectives of metaphor research and feminism criticism of literature theory. The analysis shows that Emily Bronte used metaphor to symbolize the pleasant memory of childhood by describing the moor; to symbolize both physical and metal freedom by describing the moor. Key words: Emily Bronte, Moor, Freedom, Feminism criticism,The Victorian Age, individuality symbolism of the moor, metaphor 摘 要本篇论文旨在阐述《呼啸山庄》一书中，荒原的象征作用。

《呼啸山庄》是艾米莉•勃朗特的杰作《呼啸山庄》是一部没有被时间尘土湮没得杰出作品《呼啸山庄》中作者的匠心独运的叙事技巧是其艺术魅力之所在《呼啸山庄》出版后一直被人认为是英国文学史上一部“最奇特的小说”，是一部“奥秘莫测”的“怪书”本文通过对《呼啸山庄》荒原的象征作用的阐述，表现了作者艾米莉•勃朗特个性，且对作者的时代背景也进行了相应的剖析论文从对荒原隐喻的研究和文艺理论女权主义批评角度上阐述，探讨了《呼啸山庄》背景描写之荒原的喻义揭示了荒原在作者艾米莉•勃朗特心中的重要地位《呼啸山庄》中的荒原象征着作者童年的美好回忆，也象征着维多利时代的女性们摆脱身体束缚的渴望思想和向往精神自由心灵的召唤关键字：艾米莉•勃朗特，荒原，自由主义，女权主义，维多利亚时代，荒原的象征，隐喻ContentsAbstract 1Key words 1摘要 2关键字： 21.Introduction： 42.Analysis (body) : 52.1“Wuthering Heights” is a “great book”. 52.2 “The Moor” which works as a soul prop of the whole story 62.3 “The moor” is important to the author— Emily Bronte 62.4 Metaphor is more than language, it has poured into author's thoughts and feelings 72.5．Background of “Wuthering Heights” 103.Conclusion: 12Bibliography: 13An Analysis of the Symbolism of the Moor in Wuthering Heights1.Introduction：Emily Bronte was a renowned and talented realistic writer in the Victorian time of 19th century. Her only novel "Wuthering Heights" which puts the extraordinary splendor in English literature, making the love tragedy of Catherine and Heath cliff as the main key, the revenge as the main clue. The unconstrained sentiment and the uninhibited individualities of the leading characters make the deep impression to the readers.Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte’s unique and splendid masterpiece. Wuthering Heights has been published in English literature were considered to be a history of “the most peculiar novel.” It is a “strange book” and “great book”. In the novel Wuthering Heights, the author Emily Bronte skillfully utilized some particular narration techniques. The predecessors have already made massive demonstrations and exquisite and careful analysis through the disposition characteristic in the novel. For example, Deng Zhihui, Ma Yijun and Angela Smith all tried to analyze the personalities of the main characters in “Wuthering Heights” in order to find out the reasons of love tragedy. Meanwhile, there are also many writers who analyzed the writing method of “Wuthering Heights”, such as Deng Yingling and Zhuhong. However, I specially appreciate the ingenious and novel environmental description of the novel. “The moor” appears everywhere in “Wuthering Heights”, but very few people pay attention to it. I believe there is a close relation between the author’s environment depiction and how the plots of the novel develop.For instance, among a few numbers of similar subject analysis works, Wang Hailu published an article on Chongqing University journal; he considered that the wilderness displayed the most primitive sign. And Feng Yufei in the Harbin Institute journal thought that “Wuthering” and “the moor” was the basic tragedy atmosphere of “Wuthering Heights”. Nevertheless their views are different from what I’ve found in “Wuthering Heights”. Emily Bronte used metaphor to illustrate the plentiful meanings of the moor. Time background and the social background are helpful in veining the novel and in understanding the symbols of those vivid metaphors written by Emily Bronte.Some people regard "Wuthering Heights" as a novel of terror, fear, and it makes people sick, because the novel reflects one kind of intense feminine consciousness and was not quite accepted at that time. In Victorian time, status first, the money was supreme, people's spirits received great suppression, human nature was brutally distorted. Nina Auer, Bach once made a speech “Woman and the Demon”, in which she said, “Before 19th century in the western masculine literature two kinds of not real feminine images ---- family angel and the seductive woman manifested under patriarch。